The data center is evolving. The rise of cloud, software-defined, cost-efficient energy solutions, hyper-scale facilities and the need for more edge computing is changing how companies build and sell data center offerings.

IT research firm Gartner is projecting that by 2025, 75 percent of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside a traditional data center or cloud. In addition, Gartner said that by next year 75 percent of organizations will have deployed a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model.

This shift is making data center providers of infrastructure, facilities and services change the way they approach customers. CRN shines a light on 50 key vendors who are evolving and powering today’s data centers through innovative offerings such as micro data centers, consumption-based infrastructure-as-a-service, automation, moving resources closer to the edge and hyper-converged infrastructure. Here is CRN’s 2019 Data Center 50 list.